Sharing is caring (about the environment): The DC government will establish a car-sharing program for government vehicles, to save money and reduce emissions. How about reducing emissions even further by removing reserved parking spaces and giving DC employees a parking cash-out? (AP)

Let’s Smart Grow our way back to prosperity: In his latest column, Roger Lewis hopes the lesson from this economic downturn is: stop building so much damn sprawl. “Rather than continuing to suburbanize the agrarian landscape, we should urbanize more of the existing suburbs,” he prescribes.

David Alpert is Founder and President of Greater Greater Washington and Executive Director of DC Sustainable Transportation (DCST). He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle. Unless otherwise noted, opinions in his GGWash posts are his and not the official views of GGWash or DCST.